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Flyswatter Show 11-09-2010

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Today Jen from Inside My Head podcast and I recorded a show together. We talked about silly new-aged beliefs involving Apache medicine women and quartz crystals I had when I was younger, and scary dreams that portended the future that Jen had, and nuclear war and those scary post-WWIII . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-09-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-08-2010

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I put off doing my show until evening and it was a good thing as I got a couple of voicemails.

The first was from Jen who does the Inside My Head podcast. She started that show on the first day of the first NaPodPoMo four years ago, and has kept it up . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-08-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-07-2010

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Not much happened today. I watched a few ’80s and 90s music videos with my younger daughter on YouTube.

My older daughter and her boyfriend are driving to East Tennessee tonight to see my mom and some of my siblings and also go to Cades Cove, so I am staying up to wait . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-07-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-06-2010

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Today my husband, youngest daughter, and dog Copernicus decided to walk to a dollar store to buy leftover Halloween candy (daughter’s idea), and I opted to record the walk. It’s very noisy, you’ll hear crunchy leaves, airplanes, cars, gasping dog, and me breathing, plus people walking around and talking on cellphones. Also, no . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-06-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-05-2010

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I am angry today.

On Saturday, Dwight and I went to a satellite of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert‘s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear at Manuel’s Tavern. Jon Stewart lumped Keith Olbermann, an angry liberal, in with angry conservatives Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, and Shawn Hannity. Olbermann tweeted that this . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-05-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-04-2010

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I got a couple of calls from a listener named Ben Etherington (who’s on Tumblr like me) and after he mentioned how he was stalking cars in a mall parking lot for his job, he said he was nosy and wanted to know about times I’ve been proven wrong. It was hard . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-04-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-02-2010

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Quick show today. I got stuck doing a bunch of deliveries in the rain today, then I had to change out some dumb clip art to some dumb photos for a Powerpoint presentation, which took FOREVER. But hey, it’s money.

And I am supposed to meet some friends tonight at Mellow Mushroom Pizza . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-02-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-02-2010

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I didn’t know what to talk about today. Election day? A dream I had? Then my neighbor knocked on my door and informed me that my car had been broken into. Nothing stolen, but stuff from my car was all over his lawn.

Yesterday I was having all kinds of trouble with this . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-02-2010

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Flyswatter Show 11-01-2010

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Another year, another National Podcast Post Month! Be sure to pick up the feed for all the participating podcasts!

Over the past year, my husband’s elderly Uncle Clifford, whom I took care of and who was on my show a couple of times, passed away. When we were traveling up to Massachusetts . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show 11-01-2010

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Flyswatter Show – Obligatory Christmas Show

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We have gotten my late mother-in-law’s mail forwarded to our house so we could take care of bills and such. She got a lot of catalogs. Today I discuss the items for people who are much older than me in the firstSTREET: for Boomers and Beyond® catalog. Apparently, according to this company, . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show – Obligatory Christmas Show

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Flyswatter Show – Alien Conspiracy

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I recently went to see again John Carpenter’s nifty 1988 alien conspiracy flick “They Live” at the Plaza Theater in Atlanta, one of my favorite indie movie theaters. Besides the movie, the theater had a small art show consisting of conspiracy art. I was reading parts of the art show off into . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show – Alien Conspiracy

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Flyswatter Show: Vermont Country Store

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Last day of NaPodPoMo for 2009!!!!! It’s been very fun this year.

I got my mother-in-law’s Vermont Country Store catalog in the mail today, and I share with you some of the more amusing items.

Then I play the very pretty song “Come Here to Me (The Ice Cream Man Song)” by . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show: Vermont Country Store

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Flyswatter Show: Sushi

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NaPodPoMo is winding down. I don’t know what my podcasting schedule will be after this month, but I will do my best to keep it up.

Shawn of Shawnogram left a very nice voicemail.

Today Halley, Maia and I went to a birthday party at an inexpensive sushi restaurant. We ate vegetarian. . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show: Sushi

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Flyswatter Show: Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere

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I am still having problems with my mixer. I replaced the USB audio interface, but the mixer is still cutting in and out and I’m getting bizarre effects at times. I also am still hearing radio interference when the mixer is on. I am not a happy camper. Obviously something is loose.

. . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show: Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere

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Flyswatter Show: Red Friday

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I talk about how we may not be able to do Christmas this year as we are really tight on money (Off topic, and not in the podcast, I’m not really that much into the holiday anyway and it isn’t any skin off my teeth if the whole thing would just go . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show: Red Friday

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Flyswatter Show: Happy Tofurky Day!

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Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans listening to this, as well as those who are not Americans, because we all have something to be thankful for, I hope!

On November 4 I was interviewed by Jennifer Navarrete of Morning BrewCast and Tech in Twenty. She was the one who came up with and . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show: Happy Tofurky Day!

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Flyswatter Show: Finally, a review of “The Room!”

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On Tuesday night, I finally got a chance to see “The Room” in a theater, not the way it was meant to be seen, but the way it should be seen, a la Rocky Horror-style audience participation. Thank you to Samantha and Veronica for going with me. Thanks to Samantha, Veronica, and . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show: Finally, a review of “The Room!”

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Flyswatter Show: Meat puppet?

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Yesterday, I brought up the heartwarming (or heart wrenching) story of the man who was in a coma for 23 years, but a PET scan revealed that he had normal brain function and is now able to communicate with a special keyboard. It made me think of The British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawkings, . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show: Meat puppet?

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Flyswatter Show: Veggie tale of horror!

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Today I took Dwight’s Uncle Clifford to the doctor for a complete physical. For a man his age with his poor cognitive abilities, he is doing pretty well. He had an EKG and a chest xray, as well as a prostate exam, which he absolutely didn’t want but the doctor insisted he . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show: Veggie tale of horror!

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Flyswatter Show: Nobody talks like that!

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Not a lot to talk about today–I couldn’t find any topics on the internet even, and the dog has been acting up because he is avoiding going out to play in the rain so I’ll keep it short.

We’ve been kind of hanging around the house a lot lately. Last night we saw . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show: Nobody talks like that!

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Flyswatter Show: Carl Sagan a Mormon?

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Today on Reddit, a person named ldsgems pointed out that two years after his untimely death in 1998, The Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) did baptism by proxy of the famous astronomer Carl Sagan.

This has made me so angry I had to podcast about it. The Mormons were already on . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show: Carl Sagan a Mormon?

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Flyswatter Show: Inside the Perimeter

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Kind of a rambling show today. Took Copernicus to the dog park. They are making it hard for dog people there. Does DeKalb County want to sell the park to developers or something? We live on the wrong side of the tracks from Brookhaven, which is a really nice area “inside the . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show: Inside the Perimeter

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Flyswatter Show: Open-mindedness

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I try very hard to be open-minded and enjoy knowing people with different opinions of politics, religion, and even try to get along with–gasp!–meat-eaters! Sometimes though I do get into arguments, but I really do try to be polite and listen.

Today I am playing “Midst of Your Mystery” by Laura Cheadle . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show: Open-mindedness

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Flyswatter Show: Getting Uncle Clifford enrolled in VA

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I’m using my Zoom H2 as a microphone, recording directly into the computer while I am waiting for my replacement USB audio interface device to come in. Let me know what you think the sound is like. I’m finding it a little cold-sounding, but it might be fine.

If you listened to this . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show: Getting Uncle Clifford enrolled in VA

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Flyswatter Show: Is it the USB interface?

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I think I’ve finally discovered the supposed problem with my mixer–I believe the USB audio interface has died. It started allowing radio transmission bleed-through and then completely stopped working. I also discovered that the same model is no longer available, alas. This one lasted four years, but as I recall it . . . → Read More: Flyswatter Show: Is it the USB interface?

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